Immigration policy encourages children to come to U.S.

Influx of children is encouraged

Someone is putting out the word in Central America that the U.S. will accept any undocumented juveniles’ parents sent to our country. Obama’s Health and Human Services is indeed accepting them and planning shelters for them, like the one the Escondido Planning Commission recently rejected.

Why would these parents so willingly part with their children? Are they also being told that once their children are here the parents will be brought in too? The stated mission of HHS’ unaccompanied minors program is “reunifying unaccompanied immigrant children with their families.”

This is a classic case of the camel getting his nose under the tent. The parents of these young people are probably coming here too. These families will serve as a powerful magnet for thousands more to come.

Through its immigration policies, the Obama administration seems determined to bankrupt our country by forcing it to support new millions of unauthorized immigrants. So far its efforts are succeeding.

Warren Johnson

Escondido

Child immigration add

Let’s start by calling it what it really is, more illegal immigration and more burden to American taxpayers, thanks to the policies and lack of real enforcement, from this administration.

Being from Latin America, I am not surprised that they don’t try to elude border agents and quickly surrender once they encounter agents. They know they have a free pass from the Obama administration and they have nothing to fear. News of his lax policies, regarding illegal immigration and lack of care for America and Americans, travel fast in Latin America. All this surge was prompted by the dreamers and this children were just send here for a chance to get in the wagon.

The lame excuse that they are fleeing from gangs crime and domestic violence in their countries is only to justify the problem, because gangs and domestic violence have existed in Latin America all along, and it will never change because of the corruption in those countries.

Time to demand action from this administration, to force Mexico and all the countries involved to deal with the problem and take the children back at their expense. This will solve the problem and force them to take responsibility.

Ana Zuniga-Maus

San Diego

Child immigration add II

The government and news reporters seem to have no answers to the situation where children from Mexico and Central America are pouring across our southern border.

The government is wringing its hands as to what to do. The answer is obvious: Mexico is implicit in taking children from its southern border with Guatemala by buses to its northern border with the United States and dumping them. Mexico has extreme laws controlling who comes into its country, and they back up those laws. (Our country should emulate Mexico and control our borders but doesn’t.) Any intruder across any of Mexico’s borders is dealt with severely. But it has chosen to abet the thousands of children and help them reach the U.S. by bus.

Guatemala is as guilty as Mexico by allowing children from Honduras and El Salvador to pass through its borders into Mexico. It wouldn’t surprise me if the two countries are working together to make this happen. The U.S. taxpayers give a great deal of money to both countries every year. Our government should inform both countries that the free money stops. The problem would be solved.

Robert “Zeb” Zbornak

Oceanside

Country doesn’t need more grandstanding

John Boehner — please stop. Both sides of the aisle in Washington are focused on “gotcha” politics and grandstanding.

The nation doesn’t need Boehner to sue the president. We need Boehner and the rest of Washington to focus on solving problems and not political grandstanding.

We, the people, need to start asking anyone running for office what, specifically, are they going to do to solve our nation’s problems.

When are we going to start sending people to D.C. who focus on our nation’s problems — education, infrastructure, job creation, immigration and ensuring our country remains a technological leader? Yes, this is our fault.

Hunt Eggleston

Rancho Bernardo

Iraqi government failed its people

All the talk about what the U.S. should or could have done in Iraq misses the only important point.

We fought and bled there for years. We threw out a dictator, and knocked down the jihadists, and left the country with relative peace and all the training, material and money necessary to build a future as well as the military force to defend it.

All they needed to do was form a government that their own people would be willing to defend. They failed to do that.

The problem today is not any lack of U.S. support; it is a lack of willingness on their part to risk their lives. They lack that will because their government is another corrupt dictatorship. Who can blame them? Who wants to die for a corrupt politician?

We could go back, and lose more American lives and spend another fortune, but that only postpones the Iraqi bloodshed until after we leave.

We missed our only opportunity to help the vast majority of Iraqis who want peace when we failed to ensure that the Iraqi government we midwifed was honest, competent and fair to all Iraqis.

Michael Snare

San Diego

Forget Iraq, keep money here

President Obama says no “boots” on the ground in Iraq. Interesting to learn that our military advisers don’t wear boots. As I recall Vietnam started with advisers.

The Sunnis and Shiites have been fighting each other for centuries. The U.S. isn’t going to change the Mideast, so here is a new idea for the president: Stop all foreign aid and spend the money on things the taxpayers need.

Bud Branson

Jamul

Feds should stay out of ‘Redskins’ issue

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office can rescind federal trademark protection for the Washington Redskins. Has the PC police taken over our government?

Where does all this PC end? How about the Chicago Blackhawks, the Cleveland Indians, the Golden State Warriors? Will our government, in the name of PC, rescind the rights of these franchises?

Heck, what about the Boston Celtics? Wouldn’t want to offend the proud Irish heritage. What about the N.Y. Knicks? Wouldn’t want to offend the original Dutch settlers of New York. When we allow our government to usurp the rights of our free enterprise system, there will be chaos. I say allow our free enterprise system to police matters of this nature. Quit buying tickets to their events. Quit buying their team gear. They will eventually get the message.

Michael Ginesi

Oceanside

Take a Navy shower to conserve water

Here’s a way to save tens of millions of gallons of water a day: Everyone should take Navy showers. Sailors on ships would turn on the water, get wet, turn off the water, lather and wash, and then turn the water back on to rinse.